Wednesday, July 12, 2006

the birthday massacre

Some future fine mid-May day this may well be headline of news reports in conjunction with yours truly. But not this year. I came close though.

Actually, last week at some point the iTunes music store recommended this obscure pop-gothy Canadian band as something I might enjoy. And, in one of those small happinesses that mean so much in my life, I definitely do.



Violet turns out to be an album I have been kind of wanting to hear for a long time without even knowing it. It's not as edgy as Rasputina, or as exotic as Collide, and it falls somewhere between them and folks like the Cure. Hmm, this is turning into a review, which it can't be, since all my reviews are haiku.

So I'll just say, yay, new music. Though I have mixed feelings about liking a band with a myspace (does that make me feel old? or young? or some awful in-between mix of the two, which is fairly accurate?), at least it lets me embed a strange and somewhat disturbing video right here...


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It's getting late
It all just wanes and pales and
Fades away
If we just want it too much
And what a shame
If all there is is all that's
Gone away
There's nothing left here for us
--"Holiday," The Birthday Massacre